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Executive and Legislative documents laid before the General Assembly of North-Carolina [1868; 1869]

18G8-'69.] DocrMENT No. 2. 25
" 20. The contracts of tlio insane shall not bo valid, unless it
can be shown either that such acts were for articles of neces-
.
ijity or comfort, suitable to the means and condition of the party,
or that the other party had no reason to suspect the existence
of any mental impairment, or that the transaction exhibited no
marks of unfair advantage.
" 21. x\ will may be invalidated on the ground of the testa-tar's
insanity, provided it be proved that lie was incapable of
understanding the nature and consequences of tiie transaction,
or of appreciating the reliitive vtdnes of property, or ot remem-bering
or calling to mind all tlieheirs-at-law, or of resisting all
attempts to substitute the will of others tor his own. A will
may also be invalidated on the ground of the testator's insan-ity,
provided it be proved that he entertained delusions respc<;t-ing
any lieirs-at-law calculated to produce unfriendly feeling to-wards
them,"
Clerical service has l)een regularly held, of late, in the
Chapel on Sunday, except when unavoidably absent, by Eev.
Mr. Atkinson, Rev. Dr. Smith, Eev. Dr. Pritchard, and Rev.
Mr. Hudson, alternately, much to the interest and gratifica--
tion of the inmates.
To those who have kindly remembered the Institution by
voluntary benefactions, grateful acknowledgments are ten-dered.
Such are due to Dr. Edward C. Fisher, former Superin-tendent,
for the " American Journal of Insanity," published
at Utica, New York, through a series of years, and to Dr,
Thos. S. Kirkbridge, of the Pennsylvania Hospital lor the In-sane,
for valuable documents on this speciality.
Our thanks are also due to the Editors of the " Southern
Churchman," Alexandria, Virginia, the ''Raleigh Daily Stan.-
dard," the '* Statesville American," for their pa])er gratui-tously
furnished.
With a view of eliciting practical information from the ex-perience
of other Institutions, I addressed a circular letter to a
number of Superintendents, whose answers and accompanying
documents contain much useful and interesting: matter in re-

18G8-'69.] DocrMENT No. 2. 25
" 20. The contracts of tlio insane shall not bo valid, unless it
can be shown either that such acts were for articles of neces-
.
ijity or comfort, suitable to the means and condition of the party,
or that the other party had no reason to suspect the existence
of any mental impairment, or that the transaction exhibited no
marks of unfair advantage.
" 21. x\ will may be invalidated on the ground of the testa-tar's
insanity, provided it be proved that lie was incapable of
understanding the nature and consequences of tiie transaction,
or of appreciating the reliitive vtdnes of property, or ot remem-bering
or calling to mind all tlieheirs-at-law, or of resisting all
attempts to substitute the will of others tor his own. A will
may also be invalidated on the ground of the testator's insan-ity,
provided it be proved that he entertained delusions respc